Title

JESSPOOL resources are not protected in accordance with security requirements. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

JES2 spool resources include all SYSOUT, SYSLOG, JESTRACE, and JESNEWS data sets. Failure to properly control JES2 spool resources could result in unauthorized personnel accessing job output, system activity logs, and trace data containing userid and password information. This exposure may threaten the integrity and availability of the operating system environment, and compromise the confidentiality of customer data.

Check Content

a) Refer to the following reports produced by the RACF Data Collection and Data Set and Resource Data Collection: - RACFCMDS.RPT(SETROPTS) - DSMON.RPT(RACCDT) - Alternate list of active resource classes Automated Analysis Refer to the following report produced by the RACF Data Collection: - PDI(ZJES0041) b) Ensure that the JESSPOOL resource class is active: c) If all of the items in (b) are true, there is NO FINDING. d) If any item in (b) is untrue, this is a FINDING.

Fix Text

Ensure that the JESSPOOL resource class is active: Use the RACF Command: SETROPTS CLASSACT(JESSPOOL). Note that you should also enable GENERICS and optionally RACLIST this class in memory. SETR GENERIC(JESSPOOL) GENCMD(JESSPOOL) SETR RACLIST(JESSPOOL)

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-7332r2_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-6923

Group Title: ZJES0041

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.